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A sexy blond woman lying on a tropical beach whispers, "The setting is perfect, but then erectile dysfunction happens again." This is Viagra's bold, new shift in advertising. No more guys, both young and old, horsing around as the announcer suggests that taking Viagra is as common as swallowing an aspirin. Now the company wants women to order the drug. Susie found the details in The New Yorker, in an article by Ian Crouch. She says this approach is more honest.

Today's show is an: All Sarah, All Sex, All Alaska joyride. Susie takes a look at the newest vice presidential candidate from a sexual-political viewpoint. Susie really gets under the covers with Republican governor Sarah Palin, because there are so many juicy stories surrounding this caribou-gun-toting mama.

Susie's been corresponding with a sorority sister who was involved with the recent Delta Zeta scandal at DePaul University, and it's causing Susie to think of all her experiences with this type of Greek love. Then, Susie' says there's a new way to join the Mile High Club. And, in the mailbag, a woman wants to help her sister come to terms with having herpes.

Susie returns to a favorite topic this week - the increasing corporate ownership and distribution of pornography. Could the porn-padded bottom lines of some of American's biggest and best-known corporations protect porn creators if the Bush administration cracks down on the industry? Susie has your answers right here. Also, Susie makes her sexiest Oscar picks, and offers advice to two listeners on the ups and downs of erectile dysfunction.

On today's show, Susie interviews author Adrian Colesberry. He wrote a funny how-to sex book called How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry by Adrian Colesberry. Susie is a big fan and thinks the book is hilarious. Now he's working on another book, this time about work, empathy, and pleasure. He and Susie talk about real joy, sex advice, groupies, and some sexy science stuff.

Susie is perplexed today over some strange legislation in the Sunshine State. It seems that although marijuana and bongs are prohibited, it's still okay to get down with a goat, a dog or any animal you choose. Why does Florida permit bestiality?

On this week's In Bed, Susie looks at the state of today's porn industry - which looks nothing like it did 10 years ago. For one thing, it's based in the US…and for another, professional porn stars are all but nonexistent. The top porn fantasy is porn of an extinct era.

New parents are keenly aware that there is something very important missing in their lives: SEX. Susie has some tips on how to get your mojo back, even if the diapers still need changing.

Which camp are you in when it comes to shaving? One side says furry bush and underarm hair is so sexy, while purists say give me bald pubs and smooth legs! The age-old battle is up for discussion on today's show. Susie looks at a recent article in The New York Times that featured pics of some Hollywood celebs, showing them to be with the unshaven crowd. The red carpet has seen a lot of fashion choices, but this look has really turned some heads.

Does the term "forcible rape" make your head spin sideways? Why is sexual sadism the new black in US politics? Susie delves into that issue this week - and she is spitting mad. In our current political arena, there's a new kind of pervert: the lawmaker who's a sadistic, vicious psycho who isn't afraid to defend his position. He feels entitled and proud of it. Outrageous! Susie reads from an article in The New Yorker called "The Legitimate Children of Rape".

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks about a London-based company called Killing Kittens and its unusual boast: that it provides events for "the world's sexual elite". Jenna Sauers wrote an article in Marie Claire about just such a gathering in Long Island's exclusive Hamptons. Fifty guests were invited to a mansion on the beach for potential swinging and sexcapades. But what actually happened.... Well, Susie thinks this party was way too tame.

Susie is a judge in a contest that decides which politicians were the year's "best" purveyors of public corruption, outlandish behavior, and betrayals of the public trust. This annual awards ceremony, sponsored by Talking Points Memo, is called the Golden Dukes, in honor of former US Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who epitomizes the iconic modern scandal. This year brings a bumper crop of crazy and unethical behavior by so many lawmaker "contestants" that the judges had a hard time picking who was the worst with so many to choose from.

Susie begins today's show with a tribute to the late author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. Over a long career he was a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Slate. Susie found his writing and views on bisexuality to be unparalleled.

Susie discusses the grinding backslide in abortion rights since the Trump administration has come into power. Then, it's "New on Audible": Dare to Stay: A Puppy Love Romance is the latest romance for animal lovers.

In this episode, Susie looks at a sex shop's dildo nativity scene that has the local church in a tizzy. Next, naughty Scottish Gaelic verse is fleshing out a literary history long overlooked. Plus hot Mike Pence is raising money for Planned Parenthood. And finally, from the mailbag: Is there a guide to sex just for teens?

Those crazy American evangelicals are at it again. Always trying to tell everybody else what to do, they've now decided to save Chinese teenagers from becoming sinners. Yes, it's true, the abstinence program heads to Beijing! Well, Susie has a few words to say about all this. It seems that the Focus on the Family group is behind trying to convert the entire planet to "just say no" to sex before wedlock.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to silent-movie guru Laura Horak, who critiqued hundreds of women actors cross-dressing in the golden age - and came to surprising conclusions and about what it means to gender-savvy audiences today. Then, it's "New on Audible". Memphis Noir, is a wet, dirty, and sexy exploration of crime and class in the Mississippi Delta.

What do you get when you combine ball-busting feminists, the patriarchy, and a sexy Halloween? The scariest haunting of them all! Susie went to the best haunted-house ever, featuring gender-queer apparitions, ball-busting butchers, riot ghouls, and radical vampiric grannies. The show is the brainchild of artists Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, who wanted to "pervert, not convert" all the sinners who love scary, nightmarish fun.

From Susie Bright, America's most outrageous and outspoken chronicler of the nation's sexual practices, comes this volume of the crème de la crème of erotic literature of 1999. Edited by Bright, whom the San Francisco Chronicle describes as "the X-rated intellectual" and The New York Times hails as "the voice of sweet reason and literacy", this sixth annual edition of a best-selling series is sure to satisfy old fans and leave newcomers begging for more.

[Contains explicit content] New parents are keenly aware that there is something very important missing in their lives: sex. Susie talks about how to find ways to get that part of your relationship back even if the diapers still need changing. Next, Susie reads a story from her mentor, poet Judy Grahn. "The Psychoanalysis of Edward the Dyke" is a tale that Grahn wrote about the problems of being a girl who's really a guy. Then, from the mailbag, a listener writes, "My husband won't let me masturbate." Uh-oh, sounds like a control issue.